Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
Deborah Waters Gyapong has been a journalist and novelist for more than 20 years. She has worked in print, radio and television, including 12 years as a producer for CBC TV's news and current affairs programming. She currently covers religion and politics primarily for Catholic and Evangelical newspapers.
July 18, 2007
Most Canadians believe God guided evolution: poll
{mosimage}OTTAWA - A recent Canadian Press-Decima Research Poll shows Canadians are divided on the role God played — or did not play — in the creation of humans. But that does not mean the evolution vs. creationism controversy raging in the United States will come to Canada.
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Canada
July 12, 2007
Quebec City hotels filling up for 2008 congress
{mosimage}OTTAWA - Early in May, when James Doak of Ottawa booked a hotel room for the 2008 International Eucharistic Congress next June 15-22 in Quebec City, he discovered the hotel he chose was already 90-per-cent full.
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Canada
July 5, 2007
Abolish abortion tops CBC wish list
{mosimage}OTTAWA - The wish to abolish abortion in Canada topped the CBC’s Great Canadian Wish List on Facebook with 9,543 votes.
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Canada
June 29, 2007
Prendergast installed as Ottawa archbishop
{mosimage}OTTAWA - Ottawa’s new archbishop called all Catholics, including lay men and women, to “enter on the path of holiness” during his installation at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica June 26.
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Canada
June 27, 2007
Nine pro-life MPs won’t seek re-election
{mosimage}OTTAWA - The pro-life movement stands to lose some staunch political allies before the next federal election. Nine members of Parliament sympathetic to the cause have said they will not run again.
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Canada
June 21, 2007
Anti-nuclear Pugwash movement turns 50
{mosimage}OTTAWA - Fifty years ago, at the beginning of the Cold War, 22 of the world’s greatest scientists gathered in the village of Pugwash, N.S., to talk about the threat of nuclear weapons.
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Canada
June 19, 2007
Abolish abortion top wish on CBC list
{mosimage}OTTAWA - When the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) set up a Facebook group on the Internet called The Great Canadian Wish List , perhaps no one could have predicted that “Abolish Abortion in Canada” would rise to first place almost from the very start.
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Canada
June 14, 2007
D & P to help Iraq and Sudan refugees
{mosimage}OTTAWA - The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace has raised alarms about the growing number of displaced persons needing assistance, especially in Iraq and Sudan.
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Canada
April 11, 2008
Pilgrims take on elements in Ark journey
{mosimage}OTTAWA - The pilgrims carrying the Ark of the New Covenant have faced snow and rain and shine. They have become experts in caring for blisters. Some of them have sunburns on their faces.
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Canada
June 8, 2007
Pope makes flurry of episcopal appointments
{mosimage}OTTAWA - On June 1, Pope Benedict XVI made three Episcopal appointments in Canada and accepted two resignations, close on the heels of recent appointments to Ottawa, Edmonton and Saint John, N.B.
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Canada